{B,C}LFS State of Things (was Re: SVN-20070706: ...)

[Joe Ciccone]

Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 7/20/07, Ken Moffat <ken at linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 01:29:20PM -0600, Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
>>     
>>> Here's the rendered book:
>>> http://linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/lfs-x86_64
>>>
>>>       
>>  You have correctly dropped grub from the list of packages (nobody
>> has managed to build it successfully on a pure64 system), but it's
>> still referenced in Chapter 8 - "Making the LFS System Bootable".
>>     
>
> The 1.9.x versions, too?
>   
I'll have to check on the more recent versions. I know that 1.9.2 (the 
last time I tried) still needed a 32bit glibc. I don't have a pure64 
build around but I think the new one (1.9.5) may work. grub2 is a 
completely different beast then grub legacy. Still no documentation.